I am an international student from China, so I want to introduce a Chinese film called Princess Iron Fan. The film was directed by Wan Laiming. He is the animator who led the origin of Asian animation and shocked the world. In 1937, China experienced the battle of Songhu, the city of Shanghai fell, and the Japanese army began to invade China in an all-round way. The WAN brothers, who opened China’s first animation studio in Shanghai, got the first commercial investment in Asian animation in 1940, Without the support of any foreign technology, it took only a year to draw the first animated feature film “Princess Iron Fan” in Asia for 120 minutes. Hollywood and Disney studied animation for 30 years and launched the world’s first color animated feature film snow white in 1940. Our director stuck to his dream in the turbulent society of exile and spent a year creating this animated masterpiece. At that time, the cartoon was released in the United States, and American magazine rated it as “an animation that Disney will never make.” He chose one of the greatest animated films of the 20th century. However, after the film was released, it deeply moved a surgeon. He gave up his career as a doctor and began to be a cartoonist. He is the ancestor of Japanese comics, which is called Tezuka. Under his influence, Asian animation has entered an unprecedented situation and led Asian animation. At that time, it was the peak of our Chinese animation. When watching this film, I couldn’t help feeling that although this film is very monotonous compared with the current animation, it’s not difficult to imagine how difficult it was to make this animation film by relying on the brush in that environment at that time. The animation content also adopts the fragment of journey to the west, one of our four famous works in China. It tells that the four teachers and disciples go through the flame mountain to find the Princess Iron Fan to borrow a banana fan to dispel the troubles caused by the fire. As a Chinese, I am proud to see the film created by my country and bring such a great impact, and this work is also worth watching all over the world.
